Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2014
Focus 2014: The Use of New Technologies in the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report aims to become an annual document of reference that analyses the evolution of digital trends in the cultural sector (museums, libraries, publishing companies, booksellers, theatre companies, film production, music companies, etc.) It is designed to be a manual...
The Nation's Stage
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare,...
by Rena Shagan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
This third edition of Booking and Tour Management for the Performing Arts has been updated to include information about the revolutionary new ways that performers, managers, and presenters are using the Internet to transform the business of booking live performing events. Special chapters by outside...
The Artist's Compass
The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
An inspiring, real world guide for artists, in the classic bestselling tradition of What Color Is Your Parachute?, that shows how to build a successful, stable career in the performing arts, from the President and CEO of The Music Center in Los Angeles, who has carved her own success through her creative...
Theater Arts
The Harvard School Guide For Performing Arts, Theater of The Living Arts, Theater and Society, Theater and Children and Expert Advice On Theater Careers
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Have you ever dreamed about becoming a star? With this best-selling guide on theater arts you'll learn expert advice on theater arts, theater of the living arts, performing arts, theater careers, theater and children and theater and society.
Curtains?
The Future of the Arts in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions—orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first century, including the Internet explosion, the death...
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015
Remembering the Man Behind Spock
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Entertainment Weekly presents a tribute to Leonard Nimoy. Star Trek's Spock - and much more
by Alan F. Dutka
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The first movie theaters in Cleveland consisted of converted storefronts with sawed-off telephone poles substituting for chairs and bedsheets acting as screens. In 1905, Clevelanders marveled at moving images at Rafferty's Monkey House while dodging real monkeys and raccoons that wandered freely through...
Eleonora Duse
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal.
Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended...
by Jim Volz, Jim Volz
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Introduction to Arts Management offers a unique, dynamic and savvy guide to managing a performing or visual arts organization, be that an arts center, theatre, museum, art gallery, symphony orchestra, or other arts company. For those training to enter the industry, workers in arts administration,...
by Kapila atsyayan V
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In her continuing quest, re-affirming the vision of India as an organic whole, Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan approaches the arts of Kerala both in their distinctive qualities and holistic dimension, which ideally represent the dynamics of Indian cultural processes. This monograph, based on the inaugural Parikshit...
Panggung Semar
Aspects of Traditional Malay Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Although stretching back into the unwritten and often mythic past, traditional Malay performing arts have, until recent times, been almost totally neglected. In recent years, the subject has begun to attract the serious scholarly interest it deserves. Such attention is timely, for the principal theatre...
They Told Me Not to Take that Job
Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Reynold Levy joined Lincoln Center in 2002. When he did so America's leading arts venue was routinely described in terms like this:
Behind the scenes, however, Lincoln Center is a community in deep distress, riven by conflict over a grandiose 1 billion redevelopment plan
instead of uniting...
Illusive Utopia
Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."
---Charles...